Article on Hero of Alexandria & video of aeolipile

The io9.com site featured a nice summary of the work of Hero of Alexandria earlier this week. Among his many inventions were sophisticated automta and a steam engine known as an 'aeolipile' -- a modern version of which is shown here. The post also shows a nice video of a recreated version of Hero's steam engine.

Here is the article on The Greek engineer who invented the steam engine 2,000 years ago at io9.com.

Here is were you can learn more about the beautiful steam turbine model shown above.

[ Thanks Julia! ]

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